CVE-2017-6972

critical

Description

AlienVault USM and OSSIM before 5.3.7 and NfSen before 1.3.8 have an error in privilege dropping and unnecessarily execute the NfSen Perl code as root, aka AlienVault ID ENG-104945, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-6970 and CVE-2017-6971.

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/nfsen/news/2017/01/nfsen-138-released---security-fix/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97016

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42314/

https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/8698

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-22

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H